I recently updated to Mac OS version 13 (Ventura). It mostly went smoothly, but there were a few issues of note, including an SSH key problem.
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Today, when running Vagrant on my Mac, I was greeted with a message “Vagrant will damage your computer”, which blocked it from running.
Continue reading post "#4011"git: MacOS default branch now “main”?
At some point recently, git init on my Mac has started to default to the branch name “main”. It did this for a repo I created today, but not for one created August 29th, so maybe Apple made a change in an update sometime between then and now. I haven’t been able to find anything about the change on the web though.
During my sick time at home, I discovered that Cosmic Osmo, Manhole, and Spelunx are available on Steam for modern computers.
Continue reading post "#3809"I updated to Mac OS Monterey (12.5) finally. It went smoothly but I’m still working through getting some of my dev software updated and working.
Continue reading post "#3780"Purchase: New laptop, MacBook Air
I’ve made another new laptop purchase in the past couple months: I bought a refurbished 2020 MacBook Air from Apple.com. It has a 10th gen i3 Intel processor, 8GB of RAM, and 256GB of storage. I bought it to replace my struggling 11 year old MacBook. I bought a Lenovo Yoga 7i, but was struggling to get comfortable with it for my web development work. I made the call to get the Mac so I could directly migrate both my work computer user and my personal computer users, with the plan to use it for development and use the Yoga for other stuff.
Continue reading post "Purchase: New laptop, MacBook Air"I accidentally made a 147GB file filled with grep output and almost filled up my hard drive.
It seems the WiFi in my aging 2009 Macbook is dying.
Continue reading post "#3461"Purchase: New laptop, Lenovo Yoga 7i
Last month, I finally bought a new laptop with plans to replace my aging 2009 Macbook as my primary computer. It is a Lenovo Yoga 7i, purchased from MicroCenter. It is a switch from Mac, which has been my primary OS for pretty much since I’ve been using computers, but it has touch screen and I hope to switch to the open world of Linux.
Continue reading post "Purchase: New laptop, Lenovo Yoga 7i"I’ve been having trouble with IPv6 on my El Capitan Mac over T-Mobile’s network.
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